Pages: 484Published: 12th July 2018Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Sexual references, suicide, domestic violence Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It’s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. … Continue reading Book Review – Watching You by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 416Published: 7th February 2019Genre: Historical FictionContent warning: Child death This was a buddy read with my friend Pauliina @ The Bookaholic Dreamer. We had lots of thoughtful and fun in-depth discussions during the course of reading the book. Thank you so much, Pauliina! Lancashire, 1612. Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17-years-old, married and pregnant for the fourth time. But … Continue reading Book Review – The Familiars by Stacey Halls
Pages: 354Published: 12th June 2017Genre: Domestic ThrillerTrigger warnings: Drug use, sexual content, suicide A fifteen-year-old girl has gone missing. They say Poppy O’Farrell has run away from her celebrity parents, and the media is in a frenzy. But none of this has anything to do with successful lifestyle blogger Estelle Forster . . . So why would someone … Continue reading Book Review – Her Last Breath by Tracy Buchanan
Hello everyone, I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in this latest Ultimate Blog Tour, organised by the WriteReads. Thank you so much to Dave for giving me the chance to take part, Noly for writing such an inspiring review, and finally Michael K. Hill for allowing me to read his book! Pages: 200Published: … Continue reading Ultimate Blog Tour – A Different Time by Michael K. Hill
Pages: 287Published: 16th November 2018 At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up … Continue reading Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay
Pages: 384Published: 25th June 2019Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Cancer storyline, child death, sexual references Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a … Continue reading Book Review – After The End by Clare Mackintosh
Pages: 447Published: 28th February 2017Genre: Young Adult ContemporaryContent warnings: Drug use, racism, sexual references Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands … Continue reading Book Review – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Pages: 252Published: 29th April 2009Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Sexual content, racism Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, … Continue reading Book Review – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Pages: 422Published: 18th April 2019Genre: Legal ThrillerContent warnings: Drug references It's the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicted - he's the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories. But he has also just served seventeen years for the murder of her mother. Now, Izzy's … Continue reading Book Review – The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister
Pages: 312Published: 2nd May 2019Genre: Historical FictionContent warnings: Animal cruelty, sexual content London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange … Continue reading Book Review – The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
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